Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

Re: Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

Internet Marketing Blog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:40 -0000

Awesome, its great seeing the transition that Wordpress has gone through. Thanks for this info.

Re: Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

rod / techwatching.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:23:55 -0000

Its funny: Ning always lacked the spark that would light a fire in my mind - it never seemed to have a focus that would provide a call to action to drive usage. Of course, its an infrastructure provider, but to me anyway, the concept of social network infrastructure is a little to "big" for mainstream adoption.

Wordpress, however, provides a simple-to-understand focal point (blogging) around which the social networking component can revolve. Wordpress blogs provide a gateway into the wider social networking offering - just the kind of conceptual bridge to enable it to take off. So -- good luck to them!

Re: Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

mathewi — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:26:03 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Matt. Maybe I didn't phrase it properly -- I
didn't mean that Wordpress was going to build something like Facebook
or even something like Ning, but that Wordpress MU with enhancements
could become a platform for others to do pretty much the same kinds of
things that they can do with Facebook and Ning. Would you agree with
that?

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Re: Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

Matt — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:10:14 -0000

We're not going to start a social network to compete with Facebook any more than I would start a blog network to compete with Om. We're a technology company, we make platforms. That does put us tangentially in the same space as Ning, but I think our markets are different and I love the stuff that the Ning guys are doing, and have been for years.